Killers of the Flower Moon star Lily Gladstone has made no secret of her love for Star Wars, particularly the Ewoks from Return of the Jedi. The Golden Globe winner (and Oscar contender) advised the New York Times she had a “strong desire to be an Ewok at age five”—that’s how deep the love is.
Gladstone’s lovely nerdiness has emerged in different awards-season interviews, too. In a roundtable with fellow Best Actress contenders hosted by the Hollywood Reporter, she cited Ewoks as one in every of her first appearing position fashions; they have been her “childhood inspirations, I wanted to be an Ewok, and that’s what started all this madness.” That is the cutest factor ever, to be sincere, and we love this origin story for an unimaginable expertise we’d prefer to see working in style sooner or later.
Ewoks acquired yet one more nod in Gladstone’s interview with Rolling Stone. “I was only into Star Wars because I was into the Ewoks,” she advised the journal. “I didn’t know this then, but they’re such a beacon of Indigenous resistance. And they rocked it. They brought the Empire down, I’m sorry.”
Kathleen Kennedy, that’s your cue to get on the road and solid Gladstone in one of many new Star Wars motion pictures—her love for the franchise is real, and she or he clearly has superior appearing chops. What sort of position would you wish to see Gladstone take on within the galaxy far, far-off?
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